Day 2: Desaru to Pekan
Distance: <300km Time taken: 5.5 hours, easy riding, 4 stops Lesson(s) learnt: 1) trying to write a post in blogger on the iPad is excruciating. Let's see if Blogo works better. 2) when riding, you can smell roadkill some distance away, allowing time for evasive maneuvers. Not so with cow patties near a farm, where everything smells the same. 3) those small, light brown male monkeys have disproportionately large reproductive organs. Why would something that small need such a huge appendage? So we parted ways at about 9:15 this morning, the Allman Brothers' "Midnight Rider" playing in my head. I was looking to ride through both Sedilis (Kechil and Besar) before joining Route 3 about 50km from Mersing. Easy enough. Leave Sand & Sandals, right at the roundabout towards Tg. Balau, straight at the next roundabout, and keep going. There's one traffic light that you'll get to in Sedili (Kechil, I think). Straight through and keep going til you get to a t-junct...